domestic Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household
house servant; domestic help.
adjective of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation
- domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction
adjective of or relating to the home
- domestic servant
- domestic science
adjective of or involving the home or family
- domestic worries
- domestic happiness
- they share the domestic chores
- everything sounded very peaceful and domestic
- an author of blood-and-thunder novels yet quite domestic in his taste
adjective satellite converted or adapted to domestic use
domesticated.
- domestic animals
- domesticated plants like maize
adjective satellite produced in a particular country
- domestic wine
- domestic oil

L. domesticus, fr. domus use: cf. F. domestique. See 1st Dome.

Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants.
His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong. Macaulay.
Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions. Shak.
Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman.
Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals.
Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc.

One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant.
The master labors and leads an anxious life, to secure plenty and ease to the domestic. V. Knox.
pl. (Com.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods. U. S.